Tool



.J. Z. YAWN Dec. 14 1926.

TOOL

Filed Oct. 16 1925 Dec, 14,

JAMES ZACKIOUS YAWN, OF THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA.

TOOL.

Application filed Getober 16, 1925.

From experience I have found that in track laying a number of hands are required in connecting the fish plates to the rail ends. Two hands are employed for holding the plates in the fishing spaces on the opposite sides of the rail, others for inserting the bolts and still others for screwing the nuts on the bolts. In addition to this, when connecting plates other than that of the fish type are employed, considerable time and labor is experienced in arranging the base flanges of the rails between the bzse and overl ing flanges of the connecting plates. lt is therefore my object to produce an extremely simple and cheaply constructed tool, operable by a single hand for forcing the iish plates or like connecting plates into proper position against the sides of the rails and holding the said plates so positioned for so the insertion of the necessary holding means.

The drawings which accompany and form part of this application illustrate my improvement.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improvement illustrating the manner in which 7 the same is operable, the rail and connecting plates being in section.

Figure 2 is a top plan view thereof. Figure 3 is a sectional view approximate ly on the line 33 of Figure 2.

Figure a is a fragmentary perspective iew looking toward the outer end of the handle bar of the improvement.

As disclosed by the drawings 1 make use of a comparatively long handle meinberl which is round in cross section but which has one of its ends flattened, and beveled on its opposite faces in o posite directions to the extremities thereof to provide a sub stantially chisel. end. 2. The bar 1 has an angle extension 3 that merges into a rounded portion l whose inwardly directed end 5 1S Serial No. 62,840.

formed with a central projecting lug 6. Pivoted, as at 7 to the bar 1, at the juncture of its angle portion 3 therewith, there are tl arms 7 provided on the bifurcated ends of a finger member 8. i

The operation of the improvement is clearly illustrated in Figure 1 ot the draw ings. The lug 6; on the end of the jaw l is received in one of the bolt openings in one of the fish or rail connecting plates The finger 8 has a pointed end that is received in the bolt 0 aenin the coo eratin l.

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rail holding member 10. A pressure upon the handle bar 1 in a downward direction will force the plates 9 and 10 toward each other, bringing the fianges thereof under the base fial'ige of the rail and forcing the vertical plates of the said members 9 and 10 into the fishing spaces of the rail. The d vice may be also utilized for supporting rails \vhen'the same are carried along the track prior to the laying thereof and the chisel end 2 affords a fulcrum for laterally moving the rails on the ties for the proper engagement of the rails and for other purposes. Having described the invention, I claim A tool for moving fish or like rail con necting plates into rail engagement and for holding said plates so positioned for the in sertion of the connecting bolts therethrough,

comprisng a handle member having a round ed end whose extremity is inwardly directed and which merges into a central reduced lug of a size to be received in the bolt opening of one of the fish plates, said handle, at its juncture of the angle portion of its rounded end having pivotally secured thereto a linger, and the outer end of the said finger being rounded and of a size to be received in one of the bolt openings of the second and opposite fish plat V In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

J AMES ZAOKTOUS YAWN. 

